REVIEW: The Promise of Rain by Rula Sinara

The Promise of Rain by Rula Sinara: Dr. Anna Bekker has everything she has ever wanted in life. A job as a wildlife vet in Kenya protecting and researching orphaned elephants. A coworker who is also a great friend. A best friend with whom she can share everything. Most importantly though a daughter who is her whole world. The only thing missing is love and even that she doesn’t think of often, nor of home or of her past and then one day Dr. Jackson Harper shows up to start to evaluate her project for the next funding cycle. The only problem, he doesn’t know about the little girl running around who happens to look just like him.

With Dr. Bekker’s funding in question and her former love in town her life is upside down. Dr. Harper is questioning everything when he learns just how much he’s missed in the last five years. Will these two be able to see past the hurts of the past, past their daughter and look into each other’s hearts? Only time and several flights will tell.

Ms. Sinara’s story is all about love and what can happen when you keep your feelings pent up inside and then what can happen when you finally let them out. The story moves a bit slow for my taste, but has you falling not just for the two doctors but for the wilds of Kenya and Dr. Bekker’s coworkers/friends at the Busara. The author also brought in Dr. Harper’s family in a very real way allowing the reader to understand why he is the way he is, from his over protective mother to his love no matter what sister.

Overall the story is slow moving, but with a good heart.

Book Info:

Published Harlequin Heartwarming (January 1, 2014)

He wants to take her child out of Africa…

The Busara elephant research and rescue camp on Kenya’s Serengeti is Anna Bekker’s life’s work. And it’s the last place she thought she’d run into Dr. Jackson Harper. As soon as he sets eyes on her four-year-old, Pippa, Anna knows he’ll never leave…without his daughter.

Furious doesn’t begin to describe how Jack feels. How could Anna keep this from him? He has to get his child back to the States. Yet as angry as he is with Anna, they still have a bond. But can it endure, despite the ocean–and the little girl–between them?